SPEECH LE PEN 10 APRIL. Marine Le Pen qualified for the second round of the presidential election this Sunday, April 10, 2022. Her speech on video.
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[Mis à jour le 10 avril 2022 à 23h18] Marine Le Pen qualified for the second round of the presidential election this Sunday, April 10, 2022. The RN candidate would have won 23% of the votes according to the latest estimates from Elabe for BFM TV. She will face Emmanuel Macron on April 24 (28.2% of the vote according to the first figures). Around 8:30 p.m., Marine Le Pen gave her rallying speech live from her campaign headquarters in the 20th arrondissement of Paris. She announced that she sees in this result “the hope that the forces of recovery in the country are rising.“
The RN candidate finalist in this presidential election called in particular for “gathering of the French around the millennial idea of France”, saying that she was “free from partisan ties during this campaign” and ensuring that she would be “the president of all French people. , without any exclusivity”. According to her, “what will be played out on April 24 is not simply a choice of circumstance, but a choice of society and civilization”. Marine Le Pen thus called on “all those who did not vote for Emmanuel Macron” to join her.
During this speech, the RN candidate recalled the strong themes of her program, such as immigration control, security issues, the RIC or even the “defense of secularism”. Marine Le Pen called “all French people of all sensibilities, all origins, to join this great National and Popular Gathering. Together, we will rebuild this victory to implement this great alternation that France needs to lead our country with honor. in the third millennium.”
Thank you to the millions of voters who place their trust in me. Sunday, April 24, let’s come together to seek victory https://t.co/4uyuQYFhuf
– Marine Le Pen (@MLP_officiel) April 10, 2022
Marine Le Pen’s speech in 2017
In 2017, at the end of the first round which had seen her take second place, her election evening speech had been a call to “all patriots” for “the survival of France”, a rather heard call since Nicolas Dupont-Aignan had called on his voters to join Marine Le Pen, a shock rally which had marked the start of the campaign between the two rounds. Marine Le Pen should this time reach out to another camp, that of Eric Zemmour, whom many of his former supporters have joined as part of this presidential campaign, including RN MEPs Jérôme Rivière, Gilbert Collard and Maxette Pirkabas, but also Senator RN Stéphane Ravier. Not to mention her niece Marion Maréchal-Le Pen in the home stretch… Unlike 2017, Marine Le Pen could therefore have new support and a reserve of votes for the second round.
The RN candidate has carefully prepared this presidential campaign, which she began very early on, formalizing her candidacy in January 2020 before leaving the reins of the RN party to Jordan Bardella in the summer of 2021 to devote herself fully to what she presents as his last presidential campaign. Marine Le Pen’s campaign has not lacked upheavals. The announcement of Eric Zemmour’s candidacy was followed by numerous rallyings of tenors and personalities of the RN, sometimes presented as “betrayals”. Marion Maréchal Le Pen’s wish to rally the former polemicist was also one of the highlights of the campaign. But strong from the experience of previous elections, Marine Le Pen has sometimes been able to remain in the shadows, especially at the start of the war in Ukraine before firing red balls at Emmanuel Macron’s economic policy in the face of the inflation and to position itself as the candidate of “purchasing power”.
In January 2020, Marine Le Pen formalized her candidacy, ratified at an RN congress in 2021. During her wishes to the press on January 17, 2020, the future candidate slipped in the first campaign axes, that around a further matured as explained in this first discourse. “I stepped back not from the elections but from the pure electoral contest, from the immediate fight, to favor substantive reflection, a less conspicuous work, sometimes less flamboyant, but more essential” with the aim of “sinking the foundations of the recovery project”, which “will forge the framework of the rally beyond our political family. I do not do this distance by calculation but by instinct, not by timidity but by requirement. I know that the French will not grant their confidence only on the condition of competence “, wanting to draw a line under the criticisms made after the second round in 2017.
Marine Le Pen first campaigned on traditional RN grounds, his speeches at the start of 2022, when neo-candidate Éric Zemmour seemed to be walking on his toes, attest to this. In February, while traveling in the Alpes-Maritimes, she reaffirmed during a meeting in Vallauris that she wanted to review French migration policy. “Immigration, “whatever the cost”, in two months, it’s over. France, land of immigration, it’s over, she chanted before mocking in this speech the “Emmanuel Macron’s migratory irresponsibility”. “The fundamental choice facing us in this election is that of the disappearance or preservation of the France we love”, she concluded then.
Prepared for a long time by Marine Le Pen who had declared her candidacy for the presidential election in January 2020, the campaign of the leader of the National Rally was however marked by many events and upheavals, internationally first. with the start of the war in Ukraine which may have put in difficulty its position and its closeness displayed in recent years with the policy of Vladimir Putin, a point which it transformed into strategy as the consequences of the war began to affect the portfolio of French households. From the candidacy of national identity, national preference, a revised Europe of nations, Marine Le Pen has shifted her discourse towards questions of purchasing power in recent weeks, ensuring that she wants to give back 200 euros on average per month. to the French via various mechanisms including reductions in energy taxes (petrol, gas, electricity, fuel oil, etc.).